Features Comparison Sheet for Actinic Software

GENERAL FEATURES
	ACTINIC DESIGNER	ACTINIC CATALOG	ACTINIC BUSINESS	BUSINESS PLUS	ENTERPRISE
	$599.00	$699.00	$1,399.00	$2,199.00	$6999.00 (2 seats)
Windows-based application that installs on any standard PC.
Compatible with the majority of standard commercial web servers
Web-based application that can be accessed using any web browser
Quick Start Tutorial to guide through web store creation process
Create multiple sites from the same application without purchasing additional license keys
Enable multiple users to process orders from multiple PCs
QUICKBOOKS INTEGRATION
Built in 2 way QuickBooks integration
QuickBooks Pro
QuickBooks Premier
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
Q-POS, QuickBooks Point of Sale (Must purchase Q-POS Interface separately, to connect Enterprise with Actinic)
PRODUCTS
Support for up to 20,000 products with product images
Create links to external files or URLs
Write questions for customers to answer online
Hide products and sections on the website if you do not want customers to view items
Specify the shipping weight of each product
Use a different layout for each product in the store
Create pop-up windows containing supplementary information about a product
Specify minimum and maximum order quantities
Create links to other products or sections in the store
Create user definable fields
Specify digital files for customers to download after purchasing the product online
Hide products from selected groups of customers
Support for quantity-based discounting
The ability to categorize products in order to set specific data only on that type of product
Create pop-up windows containing supplementary information about a product
Catalogue updating by one Administrator on any PC
SECTIONS
Unlimited depth of sections and sub-sections
Manually set the filename of each section page
Manually set the HTML page title of each page
Set different meta content for each section page in the store
Each store page can look different
Select how products are added to the cart by editing the "shopping mode"
‘shopping mode’
Set up a section to add multiple products to the shopping cart in one go.
Customize the layout of each page of section links
Change the way your section links appear in your online store.
PRODUCT CHOICES
Define a range of attributes and choices for each product
Assign a different price to each choice or combination of choices
Generate radio-buttons, drop downs or button grids for choice selection
Define which combination of choices is valid or invalid
Define additional components that are supplied with your products
Associate these components with products in your store
Set components as optional or mandatory
Allow components to inherit key properties of an associated product
Display additional components within their own separate line in the online cart
IMPORT/EXPORT
Export products to MS Excel or Actinic Catalog and Business
Import products and sections from a CSV spreadsheet file
Import more sophisticated store information via a hierarchical import file
Export products, sections, customers and shipping tables as a text file
Import customer account information via a hierarchical import file
Import products and customers from QuickBooks with Actinic Link
EXTERNAL LINKING
Dynamically link products to an external database
Update the external database with stock level changes from within Actinic
STOCK MANAGEMENT
Support for offline stock monitoring, with alerts for low stock levels
Automatically suspend ordering on out-of-stock products
Generate stock availability reports
NON-COMMERCIAL CONTENT
Create information items within the product pages
Create information items within section pages and content pages
Show/hide information items based on who is ordering
Create a range of content pages alongside your store pages
Customize the layout style for each page
Link information items to products and sections in your online store
GENERAL COMMERCIAL SETTINGS
Enter detailed company and contact information
Set up detailed terms and conditions for your store
Auto-generate product references, or enter your own
Set minimum and maximum spend limits
Temporarily suspend online ordering for the entire store
DISCOUNTS AND SURCHARGES
Apply a discount to an order based on how much the customer has spent
Set up a range of trigger values for a discount
Charge a surcharge on an order, which can be restricted to certain payment methods
Give discounts a start date and end date
Display relevant discounting messages in the shopping cart
Apply a discount based on the products that a customer has ordered
Set up a range of coupon that trigger your online discounts
Restrict discounts to certain customer groups
Display relevant discounting messages in the store pages
MARKETING FEATURES
Create Best Sellers list for publication to the website
Automatically generate a Best Sellers list based on order history
Create a list of Related Products for any product in order to support up-selling
Create a list of Also Bought items to support up selling
Creation of a New Products list to promote new products added recently to the site
Automatically generate a list of New Products added recently to the site
Automated generation of mailing lists including mailing labels, envelopes and campaign reports
Advanced mailing list generation allowing filtering based on order value, products purchased, address etc
Search logs enhanced in order to allow merchants to see what kind of searches were done by shoppers in order to tune the search settings to match common searches.
SECURITY AND PAYMENT
Process credit card transactions online with a selection of payment service providers
Taken credit card numbers securely online via a shared SSL server
Limit certain payment methods to specific locations in order to cut down fraud
Run the entire store, or just essential pages, on your own secure server
Option to encrypt Credit Card data stored on the desktop
Password protect Actinic to prevent unauthorized access to Credit Card data
SHIPPING AND HANDLING
Define a range of geographical shipping zones
Offer a range of shipping classes within each geographical zone
Base shipping charges on weight
Calculate shipping charges for your orders
Base shipping charges on order quantity or order value
Allow free shipping for large value orders
Set up separate handling charges
Define detailed tax charges to apply to shipping and handling
TAX
Set up tax rate for all products
Exclude tax from zero-rated products
Display tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive prices, or both
Set up unlimited tax rates and geographical tax zones
Allow shoppers to exempt themselves online
Choose which taxes apply to which products in your product range
Define a custom tax rate for some products
Improved tax reporting to assist in calculating the merchant’s tax liability
CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS
Create accounts for your regular customers
Set up a range of customer groups
Assign discounts to certain customer groups
Manually alter how much each product costs within each customer group
Write a message targeted at customers within each customer group
Hide some products from customers within specific group
Designate different methods of payment to different customers

Set up multiple invoice and delivery addresses for each customer account
Limit customers to pre-defined addresses, or allow them to enter their own

Create a customer account from an order that has been received
Pre-define the tax-exemption status for your customers
Set up multiple buyers for each account – each with their own secure username and password
own secure username and password
Set a spend limit per buyer
Specify where order confirmation emails are to be sent
Limit your store to only your registered customers
THEMES AND COLORS
Range of pre-designed themes
Ability to create and save your own color schemes
Mix and match elements from pre-designed themes to create a unique design
Ability to export custom design elements and import to other installations of Actinic
DESIGN FEATURES
Creates search engine friendly static HTML pages
Choose a corporate logo for your store
Display prices in a second currency
Create a link to a home page
Automatically generate site map
Customize the questions asked in the checkout, making them compulsory if required
Use an HTML online ‘contact us’ page
Customize where your terms and conditions appear in your store
Choose from a range of pre-configured marketing messages
Search through and customize all text prompts used in the online store
SITE SEARCH
High-speed index-based online searching
Decide how many results are shown per page
Include images in the search results
Choice of simple or more advanced searching
Search based on price ranges
Choice of simple or more advanced searching
Search based on price ranges
Search based on custom search properties
FULL SITE CUSTOMIZATION USING A POINT AND CLICK INTERFACE
Full undo and redo capability on all the design features
Ability to navigate the structure of a page using a tree interface
Page preview supporting point and click navigation to the design that creates that data
HTML code editor that is context sensitive and color coded to make it easy to understand the site design
A coding errors tool to assist with site design
A library of design snippets that can be re-used to act as a template for forming a design
Total control of the layout of sections and products into multiple columns and rows
Search and replace tool to assist in finding the piece of code you want to edit
The ability to create conditions in order to get different behavior on the website based on the data set in the content
A point and click interface to make it easy to format text for users with limited (or no) HTML knowledge
The use of PHP code to generate static HTML pages based on the data provided in the content
The ability to preview all the pages, including those pages that are generated using online scripts (such as the checkout and cart pages)
Complete control of the encoding of variables in order to generate the exact site HTML required
The ability to import pieces of design
The ability to export pieces of design
Integration with Dreamweaver to allow the overall page design to take place in Dreamweaver
PREVIEWS
Preview the entire store
SHOPPING CART & CHECKOUT
Online shopping cart
Require customers to agree to terms and conditions before checking out
Customers receive email confirmation of order
Online address book and ‘Remember Me’ feature
Support for P3P privacy policy
Unordered items remain in cart between browser sessions
Ability to set how long online carts stay active for
Ability to save/retrieve shopping lists
Support for SMTP password authentication
ORDER PROCESSING
Full demonstration and testing supported for all order processing functionality, including;
Search through your order history for specific customers, dates and ordered products	TESTING MODE ONLY
Generate and send an email to the customer informing them when their order has been shipped	TESTING MODE ONLY
Email alert when a batch of orders is waiting	TESTING MODE ONLY
Download orders into your local PC and decrypt them after they are downloaded	TESTING MODE ONLY
Enter new orders directly into the Actinic application	TESTING MODE ONLY
Edit details of orders within the Actinic database, including the ability to add new items	TESTING MODE ONLY
Transfer orders into Sage Line 50 or QuickBooks using Actinic Link	TESTING MODE ONLY
Manually adjust order details after the order is received	TESTING MODE ONLY
Maintain a payment history for each order	TESTING MODE ONLY
Make comments about orders in the ‘Journal’ tab	TESTING MODE ONLY
Split the order into back-orders if you are unable to ship the entire order in one go	TESTING MODE ONLY
Highlight orders with specific colors in the order summary	TESTING MODE ONLY
Write and send emails to your customers from within Actinic	TESTING MODE ONLY
Set up a range of custom emails	TESTING MODE ONLY
Print packing lists and invoices	TESTING MODE ONLY
Generate credit card schedules containing the credit card numbers that require processing	TESTING MODE ONLY
Print single-page data-entry reports containing the entire details of an order	TESTING MODE ONLY
Create reports on your fastest moving items and best customers	TESTING MODE ONLY
Report on all the business in your site within a set time period	TESTING MODE ONLY
Export orders as text files for processing in external applications	TESTING MODE ONLY
Choose a program to automatically run after you export a batch of orders	TESTING MODE ONLY
Support for stick on labels in order processing	TESTING MODE ONLY
One click order processing to allow fast processing of orders	TESTING MODE ONLY
Order line price editing from the desktop	TESTING MODE ONLY
Bar coding on standard reports	TESTING MODE ONLY
Simultaneous processing of both online and offline orders on up to 9 (4 with Windows XP Home Edition) networked PCs	TESTING MODE ONLY
SITE DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Backup your work with a ‘Site Snapshot’ that saves your database, templates and images as a single transportable file.
Use Snapshots to transfer Actinic sites from one PC to another.
Pre-set which store elements will be enabled/disabled in a deployed site.
Deploy Client sites to allow customers to only download orders from an online store
Activate key functions (preview/upload/download/export) from a command line in Windows
White boxing of the Actinic product to allow web designers to configure the Actinic product in order for them to put their own branding on the product
The ability to customize the user interface of the product by configuring variables that are presented in the UI in order to determine where the variables can be set, their initial default setting and their description
Unlimited multiple site building and management from a single license
SUPPORT
Comprehensive user guide and on-screen help
Site Upgrader to help you upgrade from previous versions
Ability to place the site in 'Test Mode' while making changes.